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• US$214M audit dispute with Exxon now before ICC

   – Govt. confirms failure to agree on sole expert (Kaieteur News) – More than five years after a British consultant flagged the misuse of US$214 million of Guyana’s oil money by ExxonMobil, the stalemate has landed before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). This was confirmed by Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat in a brief […]

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• Suriname rejects 384.8 tonnes of Guyana rice over missing import approval

  (Kaieteur News) – Surinamese authorities have rejected a 384.8-tonne shipment of rice from Guyana and ordered that it be returned to the country of origin after discovering that the importer had failed to obtain the required authorisation before taking the agricultural product into the country. Suriname’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (LVV), Mike Noersalim, told […]

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• MV Barima CoI to last 6 months amid boycotts, protest over unsalvaged vessel

  (Kaieteur News) – The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the MV Barima disaster will likely take up to six months to complete its work and produce a final report, despite a two-month timeframe initially mandated by the president. Commission Secretary Javed Shadick at a press briefing on Tuesday explained that interviewing over 100 potential contacts, managing […]

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